The fat commuter wrote:Most reviews seem to be German. Does this mean that this is a German light? If so, does that mean that the light meets the equivalent of BS standards?
The regulations allow for the use of lights meeting an equivalent European standard. It is widely agreed that the German StVZO standard is equivalent to or better than the British Standard for bicycle lamps so we can be pretty confident that they are road legal in the UK. This issue is becoming increasingly moot because virtually no manufacturers now produce lights approved to the British Standard which is now pretty much obsolete. Because they are not approved almost all bike lights sold in the UK (including your current ones) are technically not legal to use as the sole front or rear lights. We are in the bizarre situation where German lights are legal in the UK but ones bought in your LBS are usually not
Personally I'd rather the UK just adopted the German standard. Luckily the police don't care about standards compliance as long as you have working lights of the right colour which don't blind others.
